THE DANBURY REPORTER.
VOLUME XXXIII.
MR. BICKETT A CANOIDATE.
—: — „ I
Wants to Go to the Legislature On
* a Unique Platform or Programme.
•In a card occupying three col
umns, In the last issue of the
frfiiisburg Times, Mr. T. WV
Cickett, of Franklin connty, an
.iKinnces his candidacy for the
"* At the outset Mr.
Beckett snys:
It has been persistently conteod
* ed by some of the paper a in the
State that the people Bhould de
*4iffUid of every candidate, "Why
* (do you want to go to the Legisla
t, .4»lre?" The position is well taken;
the question is an eminently fair
* onfe. If in these times of paaoa
prosperity, when all the great
jjuestions of human rights and
liberties have been settled; when
the race question, if not dead, is
taking a long, sweet sleep; when
* the leaders of the enemy have
-A. ■worn themselves to a frazzle whip
(i> ping each other—if under these
l" conditions n man "sound of wind
and limb" really wants to go to
the Legislature, then ha should be
aubjected to a rigid cross-examina
tion and required to state the
reason why. Such a want, unex
plained, lo ks suspicious; it cre
, ; >*tes a presumption against a man,
which, if he can rebut, it becomes
his duty to his country and his
family to do it.
In answer to the question why
he wants to go to the Legislature,
Mr. Bickett says the only reason
be entertains the idea for a single
moment l» because it has been
made to appea&io him that "the
pk Mia really y>cerely" want
go; In consideration oi
this urgent demand of the people,
and that afone, he U willing tc
make the sfcifioe. In explana
-,tiSn of what he will stand for ii
™ * to the Mr
ett says:
I will put my views in the shape
of a programme instead of a plat
form. Platform# have loelremr
power. Partly from abuse,
from disuse, their glory has de. |
, parted. In most cases a platform 1
is a euphonious correlation of i
pUrtjtudes and insipidities. An
j&iervant lexicographer would
probably define a platform in its
political sense to be a contrivance
used by politicians to walk into
office on, as one uses the gang
plank in boarding a ship. On ac
oonnt of these things, a platform
is more or less in disfavor and
disrepute. There, I will write my
prdgramme.
V Mr. Bickett directs attention to |
the spelling of the word program
me. Me uses the two uis and he
wants the accent on the gramme.
He sayß hfl oould not be induced
to run on a program, with the last
syllable pronounced grum. This
the fcaudmark's heart to,
anl Mr. Biekett,*' If we had time
gain citiaenship we would go
vii to Franklin county just to
/tor him. Glory to Mr. Bick
„ . and the old-fashioned pro
gramme and annihilation to the
nru-grum crowd! Again Mr.
I BH > B ' ;
. will be seen that ray pro
gramme contemplates that every
thing possible shall be done for
th»» insane. Well,. if during my
iiru I find wandering around the
legislative halls one of those ufi
whose malady assumes
I tbe form of a hallucination tl»t
hu Is the people, to be
very ,kjnd to him. ! will have tire
sergeant-at-arm instructed to keep
a mr i 1 eye on him ami see that
no OUB. floes him auy violence by
I reason of his infirmity. In oat
poverty, we are not able to pro- I
vide proper places for the care 1
and detention of these people ; in v
fact, in most countries it has been \
the custom to permit this peculiar s
type of neurotic to run at large, t
They are supposed to have de- i
scended from Eliphas the Teman- B
ite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zop- r
bar the Namathite, to whom on » i
certain memorable occasion "the t
niost patient man" is reputed to I
have »sid, "No doubt but that ye '
are the people and wisdom will 1
die with you." Therefore, both ! 1
on account of infirmities and of 1
their long descent, they are entit- 1
led to the charitable forbearance 1
of the puMic.
And here is Mr. Bickett's pro- j
gramme; (
First Day ' (
1. Organization.
2. Reception of Governor's mes
, a»ge. (
3. Passage of act to restore to (
| the dogs of Franklin county their (
ancient immunity from taxation, j,
Taxation without representation ,
is unjust.
| Night Session:
1. Consideration and passage of '
revenue and machinery acts —same
as 1905, with any slight modifies?
tions which shall meet with favor.
2. Passage of insurance law in
line with recommendation of the
Governor and insurance depart
j meat,
Second Day, Morning Session t
1. Appropriations, same as
1905, with as much addition for
care of insane as possible.
2. Refer all bills relating to
freight and paaeenger rates to the
corporation commission with di. I
rections to make a thorough in- j
vestigation of the facts and then
fix the lowest rate possible consis
tent with justice to the railroads
and the continued growth and
development of the State,
Night session :
1. Election of United States
Senator.
I Third Day: '
1. Extra appropriation to public I
schools of the sum of $(>8,424.95. t
i). Passage of resolution that, |
notwithstanding the charges and (
|&ounter charges hurled at one (
another by men of place and
| prominence, the General Assembly 1
of iyQ3 reaffirms its faith in the I
goodness of God and men, and in
the final perseverance of Demo
cratic principles.
3. Phosgraph of General Assem.
bly Iff
4. Adjournment, sine die.
The to take the tax
off dogs in Franklin county or
anywhere would weaken the Land
mark's support of Ml". Bickett if
the remainder of hlsyjrogramme
wasn't so good. It will be noted,
however, that he proposes to re
move the tax from dogs in Frank
lin county only. It is possible
1 that he it; doing this oat' of con,;
sideration for the feelings., of the
1 voters, and that he would
' ject to but would probably aid jfi
1 placing a tax on dogs in por
tions of the State. For this reason j
we overlook this apparent defec-1
* tion iu the programme and pass
I 3f j
• j on.
Discussing his proposition to i
" refer all railroad rate bills to the
corporation commission, Mr. Bick
. ett says the commission is main-
g 1 tained at an aunual expense of
- $12,000 to $15,000 to do this work
? and he can see no reason why the
1 Legislature should undertake to
8 do what the commission is paid to
B
p do. On this point Mr. Bickett
t says:
p The question is not whether
r one is in favor of lower rates or
DANBURY, N. C., JUNE 7, 1906.
higher rates; on that question the
line-up ia perfectly natural. Thoße
who ride are on one aide and those
who haul on the other. It is
simply the old antagoniatic rela
tion of buyer and seller. That a
railroad wants to get as much
as possible does not necessarily
make it an outlaw; that* a citizen
wants to pay as little as possible
does not necessarily make him a
patriot. Neither disposition could
be fairly classified among the car
dinal virtues; they do not even
possess the merit of .novelty, but
are a* old as sin in thp wor|d, and
as universal. There is no doubt
that Adam, immediately after tbe
fall, wanted to buy plunder from
the inhabitants of tbe "Land of
Nod" at rock bottom prices, and
the race has ever lent a willing
and zealous obedience to tbe com
mand tp "*pojl the
In this quarrel between buyer and
seller, the State does not take
sides; it is the guardian of all
alike, and has created a high
tribunal whose sworn duty it is
to ascertain every pertinent fact j
and then to do equal and exact
justice both to the people and to
the railroads.
In explaining why he proposes
to finish the business in three
days and go home, Mr. Biokett
says he does not think the Legis
lature should meet oftener than
! once in four years unless there is
some crying necessity, and in suoh
the Governor oould call an extra
session. The last session cost the
State $72,031.90. Mr. Bickett
says if his progrmme is carried
out the next session will oost jußt
I
$3,(506.95, making a net saving of
$1)8,424,95, which is the exact
amount he proposes to give the
public is, he will give
i the schools extra the amount
saved.
Glory to Mr. Bickett and his
programme! If some man like
Mr. Bickett will get out in every
county in the State with a similar
programme, the follows who want
to go to Raleigh and spend sixty
days drawing $4 a day and driuk
ing dispensary liquor will uever
know what struck 'em.
BANBURY.
Danbury, June is
on a boom—baseball and fishing,
Ask Walter Petree if he knows
which aisle he is going down.
Mr. N. O. Petree is grandpa
I these days.
Evangelist Joe Coleman passed
through the city the other day,
Mr. R. H, R. Blair says he hopes
all of the frost is over, as he has
set his potato patah all he cares
to for one season.
John Bennett says ye can't get
any more "warnuts" at his house
If Jack Heath is not aiclt wal
-1 nnts wont make him slok,
Sheriff Potree went to Winston
last week as a witness in the Ko
■ bre murder trial.
FISHERMAN.
Strawberry Ice.
Make a syrup by boiling foui
water and one and twc
third of sugar, twenty
minutes. Mash the strawberries
and squeeze through a double
thickness |of cheese cloth; then
should be too oupfuls of straw
berry juiow Add to syrup witl
. a tableepoonful of lemon juice
strain,' and freeze, using thre
parts of finely crushed ice to on
1 part of rock salt.—Fannie Merrit
> Farmer iu> Wpman'a Home Com
); panion for June.
t i If you are not a regular reado
of the Danbury Reporter you ar
r not keeping up with affairs ji
r. Stokes ooflnty.
LETTER FROM DOG-KILLER.
His Final Letter On the Question
of Whether Or Not a Negro
Has a Soul.
Mr. Editor :
If you will allow me space in
pour paper I will now write iny
inal letter on the negro question :!
You know that I promised to 1
jhow from a psychological stand
point that the negro has a soul.
A.nd in my last letter wo differen
tiated or pointed out the distinct
Ive features between the subject- j
ive mind or soul, and the mortal
mind. We stated in that letter
that the more nearly the functions
of the objeotlve or brain mind are
suspended or brought into a state
of quiescence, the more marked
and prominent are the manifesta
tions of the so\|l powers. It is
sometimes the case that the objec
tive or brain mind is so poorly de
veloped in certain individuals as
to render them almost idiots and
incapable of inductive reasoning,
Yet some of their aoul powers are
so wonderfully developed as to en
able them to grasp or understand
many of the fixed laws of nature.
This is remarkably so in the case
of musical and mathematical prod
igies. And we now cite a few
oases as evidence of the truthful
ness of this proposition, and to
point out some of the wonderful
powers of the soul. First, I will
name the case of Zerah Colburn,
who was born at Cabut (a town
lying at the head of the Onion
river, in Vermont), on the Ist of
Sept., 1904. Thig child knew
nothing of the common rules of
arithmetic, or even of the use and
power of the Arabic numerals. Yet
before he was six years old, he be
gan to show wonderful powers of
calculation, The discovery was
made by accident. His father,
who had not given him any other
instruction than such as was to be
obtained at a small school, which
did not include either writing or
ciphering, was much aurprised 0110
day to hear him repeating >
the products of several numbers. ,
Struck with amazement at the |
circumstance he proposed a variety
of arithmetical questions to him all i
of which the child solved with re- i
tnarkable facility and correctness. ,
Before he was eight years old, at
a meeting of his friends, the child
undertook and completely succeed
ed in raising the number and pro
gressively up to the sixteenth
power, and in naming the result,
viz., 281,474,976,710,656! he was
right in every figure. He waa
then tried as to other numbers
consisting of one figure, all of
; which he raised (by actual multi
plication and not by memory) as
high as the tenth power, with so
much facility and dispatch that
the person appointed to take down
ibe results was obliged to enjoin
bint not to he so rapid.
He was asked the square root
of 105, 929, and before the number
could be written down, he imme
diately answered, 327. He was
then requested to name the cube
root of 268,336,125; and with
equal facility and promptness he
replied, 645. One of the party re
quested him to name the factors
i which produced tho number 247,
\ 483; this he immediately did by
i mentioning the numbers 941 aud
2(53. He was then aßked to give
the factors of 36,083, but he im
mediately replied that it had none
j —which infact was the case, as
36,083 is a prime number. Other
numbers were indiscrimininately
proposed to him, and he always
succeeded in giving the correct
factors, except in the case of prime
uumbers, which he discovered al
most as soon as proposed. One of
i the gentlemen present asked him
i jhow flpany minutes there were in
[forty-mght yoara; and before the
question could be written down '
he replied, 25,228,800; and instant
ly added that the number of
seconds in the same period was
1,513,'728,000. Various question#
of the like kind were put to him,
and to all of them he answered
with equal facility and prompti
tude so as to astonish every one
present. And when the child was
asked how he was able to do these
things, he persistently declared
that he did not know how the
answers came into his mind.
The case named above is one in
1 which the soul manifested some of
its powers—powers transcendent
ly greater and beyond the grasp of
the mortal tuind, oidy as they are
lifted up into that mind's con
sciousness from the wellsprings of
immutable and eternal truth deep
down in the soul or subconscious
mind. And the reader must ad
mit that these powers belong to
the soul, and not to the mortal or
brain mind, only as they are hand
ed up to the mortal mind from the
rich stores of the soul.
The immortal Hudson comment
ing on these things says:
"A few years ago a gentleman
traveled through this country,
teaching arithmetic. He was
known as the "lightning calcula
tor." His powers were indeed
marvelous, He oould add a col-1
' urnn of as many numbers as could
be written on a sheet of legal cap
1 by casting an instantaneous glance
, upon the page; but he suoceeded
i no better as a teacher than thous
i ands of othora who could not add
[ column of numbers without
! reading every figure by the usual
f laborious, objective process. He
1 could give no explanation of his
t powers other than that he possess
- ed extraordinary quickness of
f | vision. But any one who is suffi
s ciently acquainted with the ele
ments of optical laws to be aware
r that in the light of a Hash of
e lightning a drop of falling rain
\ appears to be suspended and mo
r tionless in the air, knows that ob-
jective vision is not capable of
such rapid transition as to enable
one to see at a glance each particu
lar figure in a column of a hun
dred numbers. When to this is
added the labor of calculating the
the relation and aggregate values
of the numbers, the calculation is
inevitable that such powers are
not given to our objective senses,
but must be inherent in the hu
man soul, and beyond the range of
objective explanation or compre
hension." Then says Dr. Hud
son: "Musioal prodigies furnish
further illustrations of the prin
ciple involved."
So now, my dear reader, I come
to the last or culminating point in
my proof that the negro has a
soul. 1 have shown in the pre-1
ceding cases that, the soul has
powers transcendently greater
than any belonging to the mortal
mind. And now I am goiug to
j show that the negro is possessed
of these soul powers, in common
with the white man. And 1 cite
a case in proof of my proposition.
\ The oase is that of the negro
idiot, known as "Blind Tom." I
suppose that nearly everybody has
heard of "Blind Tom." He was
not only blind by birth, but was
, but little above the brute creation
in poiut of objective intelligence
or capacity to receive objective in
struction. Yet his musicial ca
pacity was prodigious. Almost in
| his infancy it was discovered that
' he could reproduce on the i>ianc
' any piece of music that he had
lever heard. A piece of music
' 1 however long or difficult, once
heard, seemed to be fixed indelibly
iin his memory, and usually
could be reproduced with a sur
! prising degree of accuracy. Hii
! capacity for improvisation was
i[ M>NTINITKI> ON FOURTH PAOE.
Briefs Adrift.
Mr. J. P. Smith, of Germanton
Route 1, was here Thursday.
Mr. L. B. Simmons, of Hartman,
was a Danbury visitor Monday.
Mr, W. H. Flinohuin, of Pied
mont, visited Danbury Saturday.
Mr. J. J. Priddy and little son,
Nathaniel, of Danbury Route 1,
were here Thursday.
Messrs. J. H. Fagg, of Dellar,
and A. D. Dodd, of Dodd, attend
ed the speaking here Monday.
Ex-County Commissioner Joseph
Martin, of Dellar, was among those
who were in Danbury Monday.
It is learned that the foot-wash
ing at Flatshoal Baptist church
last Sunday was attended by an
immense crowd.
Mr. W. A. Petree, of King
Route 1, spent Friday night attho
home of his brother, Mr. N. O.
Petree.
Mr. H. D. Mabe, of Kinston, a
former employe in the Reporter
office, spent a day or two here the
past week.
Mr. J. \V. Young, of Dillard,
was here Thursday after his daugh
ter, Miss Cora, who had been in
school here for some time.
Miss Maggie Petree, of Ger
manton, spent Thursday and Fri
day here with her cousin, Miss
Sadie Petree, returning home Sat
urday.
The friends of Editor McMicli
ael, of the Madison Herald, are
urging him to make the contest
for the State Senate from Rock
ingham.
Misses Martha Smith and Mary
Shuff, who have been attending
3chool here some time, returned
to their respective homes the past
week.
The Reporter was glad to see
its friend, Mr. B. F. Pulliam, of
Pink, on our streets Monday.
Mr. Pulliam has been confined
with sickness for sometime.
Misses Margaret and Sadie May
Dalton, of Winston, aid Annie
Kate Jones, of Walnut Cove, spent
several days here the past week
the guests of Dre. W. V. and W.
L. McCanless, They were accom
panied by Master Rufus Dalton.
HillTopand Pink Grove played
an interesting game of baseball
Saturday. The score was 2 to 1
in favor of Pink Grove and when
the game closed Pink Grove had
another time at the bat. Hill Top
and Pinnacle expect to play 011
Slate ground Saturday.
Sam Kobre, William Plean and
J. E. Whitbeck, indicted for the
murder of Henry Kobre, at Win
ston, was aquitted in the Superior
Court there Thursday morning
1 without argument to the jury and
I upon instruction of Judge Peebles.
The evidence against the men was
! not sufficient to convict.
Among those in attendance at
the meeting of the Farmers' Pro
tective Association Monday were
Messrs. J. W. Pulliam, J. W.
Spainhower, J. S. D. Pulliam, A.
Tilley, J. W. Johnson, O. L. Pul
liam, P. H. Martin, H. C. Lackey,
P. H. Young, David Stewart, W.
,V. Shelton, Alex Southern and
, others.
LICENSED TO PRACTICE.
Those Who Passed State Medical
Board In Charlotte.
I
Of the 132 applicants for license
to practice medicine before the
. State Board of Medical Examiners
1 in Charlotte the past week, 47 fail
i ed to make the necessary average
jof HO per oent. to pass. Six of th«
I number were oolored.
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